The pop influence never really left them or their music, and the new sound they ended up creating would inspire generations and generations to something different, a counter culture with a power and force that has rarely, if ever, been seen before.

Skatepunk has shown to be the most diverse of the various genres of punk, as it started as a blending of two different styles of music and has continued on and on to add more and more.

Punk, since it started in the later sixties, has been building a diverse, meaningful counter culture, a revolutionary new place in society for those who feel left out and turned down by “the system.” Modern pop/bubblegum punk has failed to achieve that.

Poppunk is a fusion genre combining the catchy attributes of some of the original punk rock groups with trends in contemporary pop music.

Additionally, poppunk is a retroactive description for some of the original punk bands of the late 1970s, such as The Ramones, who were influenced by bubblegum pop and popular rock music of the 1950s and 1960s.

The term "poppunk" was originally used by the punk community in the 1980s, in publications such as Maximum RocknRoll, to describe bands similar to Social Distortion and TSOL.

Punk rock is an anti-establishment rock music movement with origins in the United States and United Kingdom around 1974 or 1975, exemplified by bands such as the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Damned, and The Clash.

Punk rock in Britain coincided with the end of post-war consensus politics that preceded the rise of Thatcherism, and many British punk bands have expressed an angry attituded based on social alienation.

Gradually, punk became more varied and less minimalist, with bands such as The Clash incorporating other underground musical influences like ska and rockabilly and even jazz into their music, but the message of the music remained the same; it was subversive, counter-cultural, rebellious, politically incorrect and often anarchist.

Most of the reviews about Punk Goes Pop are being truthful when they tell you that some tracks are good and some tracks are bad.

There are plenty of other pop stars out there, and I wonder why there songs weren't covered.

www.amazon.ca /Punk-Goes-Pop-Various/dp/B0000630WG (913 words)

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and here's the thing about the descendents: bill could write all the "avril fan-ready" nifty three chordpop songs, but milo and whomever was playing guitar or bass on that particular album were more than capable of making bitter/complicated art-punk-metal that transcended the saccharine of the previous track.

The main gimmick to defending superficial chart pop in thoughtful writing, as far as I can tell, is the contrast between the subject and the commentary.

Poppunk, by affecting even a shred of rebellion, exhibits some kind of thought, and is thus less "daring" to write thoughtfully about.

So you probably figured out by now that I love melody-driven punk rock, a subgenre of punk rock known as powerpop (according to the Little Angel) melodopunk, melodocore, or pop-punk (although it's far from the "pop" songs of Vanessa Williams or Mariah Carey -- ack!!).

But, anyway, the common time beat, simple chords in a major key, and a catchy melody that infects your brain are characteristics of your typical, formulaic melodocore song.

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John Stamos Project - John Stamos Project is a three piece punk band from Long Island, New York.

Home Page - A power poppunk trio hailing from Joliet, IL w/influences of Green Day, Bad Religion and Smoking Popes, members of the band have worked with former Naked Raygun members Jeff Pizatti and Bill Stephens in The Bomb and The Tarts.

www.punklist.com /Bands_and_Groups/Pop_Punk/index.shtml (241 words)

Top Punk-Pop Artists, Albums, Tracks and Videos on Rhapsody(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)

A keystone of UK punk, the Buzzcocks'; smart use of melody set them apart from the rest of the lot.